This version of A Change Is Gonna Come is my absolute favorite because it so much is about the newly elected President and all the hopes we had pinned on him. And our POTUS has delivered, oh yeah. Bettye LaVelle’s duet with Bon Jovi is just the best. I love their chemistry together – such joy and respect.

He just looked as though it was perhaps the first time that day he could actually sit quietly and think about his own place in the song’s historical mantra, “Change Gonna Come.” He looked a little choked up to me. Which makes me want to sob!

This would be me if I ever get to meet him, if I ever am so lucky, if I ever were blessed enough to get a hug from him. The Secret Service might have to pry me away. It probably would be an emotional, not so pretty scene.

@jamesoboyd: @johnlegend People need to take better care of themselves first and foremost. Eating better and exercise will do more than insurance.
@johnlegend: @jamesoboyd cool. and when they get cancer, they’ll just go to the gym and eat a celery stick?

You stole my thoughts. They seem to think Jeb is good enough to take the Hispanic votes; he speaks it fluently and his wife is Hispanic. They said that he will get some of the black votes as well. I say ok…..run Jeb run!

No redemption possible there, I won’t ever listen to another word he says and blocked him on Twitter. MSNBC sure knows how to find these young smugsters. I see that son of Mia Farrow has had poor ratings and might be cancelled. Too bad it’s just him and not Chris Hayes and Chuck Toad too. Gawdawfulness. I don’t watch either of them EVER but just seeing their promos during other shows makes me nauseous.

Please take the time to watch the full 60 minutes report & bookmark the New York Times mag excerpt of how these guys exposed how High Frequency Traders have rigged the entire U.S. stock market (your pentions/mutal funds/401k)…. even GoldMan Sachs was getting took….until these guys showed up!

I saw that last night. Very interesting that such a high tech business (stock trading) still relies on actual physical telephone wire if you will to play the game and that distance from one location to another matters, unlike the internet where distance doesn’t matter.

So Those who may qualify for the medicare part of ACA have Zero deadline if their States have the extension? I didn’t know that. That should be told more often. I thought I was slightly educated enough on ACA. I failed.

You may be confusing Medicare and Medicaid. Medicaid is available all year if you qualify. Medicare, for seniors, has an enrollment period at the end of the year unless you hit your 65th birthday during the year.

Also, Nena, Medicare has been staffed with ‘navigators’ for decades, helping seniors sign up for Medicare. All of a sudden when it comes to ACA, navigators need a top level security clearance from GOP. It’s despicable.

In the days since Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea, the Russian people are once again feeling good about their country. A robust 63 percent of them say they consider Russia a “great power,” according to a survey released this week by the Levada Center, a respected Russian polling firm. The survey also found that Putin’s approval rating is now at 80 percent, a 17-point rebound from his all-time low, just one year ago.

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When it comes to the environment, I found that 50 percent of Russia’s water is not potable. Air pollution continues to be an extremely serious issue, suggesting that a solution proposed during the late-Soviet period continues to hold sway. Back then, a Russian health minister advised the country to “breathe less” in order to live longer.

This is the kind of desperation that Vladimir Putin is distracting the Russian people from. During the 2000 campaign he flew to the scene of the uprising in Chechnya and promised to “ice them while they’re shitting in the outhouse.” Doing the math today, you can see that Russia remains frozen in time—and its leaders free to hallucinate.”

BTW, you can be absolutely certain that President Obama knows this stuff, comprehensively ….

“According to Murray Feshbach, a Georgetown professor emeritus and the dean of Russian demography in the United States, Russia’s working-age population is also declining by a million people a year, a faster rate than the decline of the overall population, which in 2013 stood at around 143 million, 3 million less than when Putin took office. Moreover, only 30 percent of Russian babies born are born healthy. Eberstadt told me that many unhealthy Russian babies are “discarded” —sent to government institutions where they often develop cognitive difficulties. Unhealthy children grow up to be unhealthy adults: half of the conscripted Russian army has to be put in limited service because of poor health.”

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Just read the article, similar to others I’ve posted, to get a very clear sense of just how WEAK & desperate Tzar Putin’s Russia is. Those are not facts over which to gloat, those are facts that should scare the daylights out of you. Tzar Vlad literally has NOTHING TO LOSE. A dude with nukes who had NOTHING TO LOSE is the most dangerous creature humanity has ever confronted.

Terry1266Terry, People don’t like being forced to do thing they don’t want to do. Well I wear a seat belt, some people don’t like wearing seat belts, if caught not wearing it I will get a ticket. I have to get my car inspected every year, I have to pay for a license sticker, I have to have car insurance, I have house insurance, why not health insurance.

I’ve been praying, and I know a lot of TODers have, too. All I have to say to fellow believers is that God is good all the time. I have prayed and prayed, asking God to make the ACA a success, and it seems he heard my prayers and the prayers of all others who were asking for the same thing! I am so happy today. It’s wonderful, too, that approval for the ACA is up and it was announced today—on the day of the deadline.

Yes Indeed, Vicki! Nerdy and Chips have done an amazing job covering the positive news about OBAMACARE. We should also express our gratitude to TOD members who have worked so hard to help people enroll in the OBAMACARE. I know I will mis some names, but here are some of the people that deserve our thanks for all their hard work: What’s Working, Donna Dem, Judith Farding, Tally, Bill R, GGail, HOPE44, Isonprize, and many many other TOD members, whose names I have forgotten, who have worked so hard to help others get covered by OBAMACARE. Also the wonderful TOD twitter warriors, to many to list, who have been relentless and fearless in defending OBAMACARE. This night belongs to all of them!

A big thank you to John Legend for trying to take sense to people who have lost all sense some time ago. If these Obama haters don’t want health insurance then don’t get it, but don’t dare try to prevent those of us who do want it from getting it.

My question remains: Why is the press so hellbent on keeping people from having reasonable health care via their horrible non-reporting? I know why the Repukes don’t want people to have access to it, but why is the press so adamant this is a failure, and people shouldn’t have it??????? THEY all have good health care…….we know that!

Actually David is being modest! ACA has so far resulted in the coverage of about 17 million people if you add in the 3 million young adults who stayed on their parents’ insurance until they were 26; the 4.5 million now covered by Medicaid; and another 2.7 million who accessed all the ACA insurance benefits directly from the insurer